1600s buckles

[Bill D. (VA)]

Been re-doing some of my artifact displays recently, and decided to put some 1600s buckles together in a nice wooden case. This will do for now, but eventually I'd like to put together a professional display of these buckles with labels including type, date range, etc., for the many varieties I've recovered over the years. Aside from silver coins, early buckles just might be my 2nd favorite colonial artifact to recover. Feel free to click and zoom in for better detail as its a large file.

 

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[villagenut]

That's eye candy there....sweeeet.

 

[RustyGold]

Fantastic collection! Thanks for the look.

 

[Old Pueblo]

Wow, do you remember where they all came from?

 

[OutdoorAdv]

Love this picture Bill That's an incredible collection that represents years of hard work in some of the earliest possible sites. Excellent picture too and fun to zoom in and look at everything.

 

[Z.K.]

I appreciate you posting this. It is inspiring to see.

 

[Patriot Relics]

Now that's one gorgeous display Bill- I find myself switching between grouping similar aged digs together and organizing by site recovered. Either way that's a lot of VA history

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

Now that's one gorgeous display Bill- I find myself switching between grouping similar aged digs together and organizing by site recovered. Either way that's a lot of VA history

I used to do it that way too Jon, and I still have the documentation so I know where everything came from, but I thought it would be more impressive to display all of one type of artifact together. My new book will have many similar photos.

 

[Mudflap]

What a great display! Quite the collection. Looking close I can see some intricate detail on several of the buckles.


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[BigBoom]

That's jaw dropping nice

 

[toasted]

Wow. Youve definately got some quantity with some quality specimens. I guess Ill just have to settle for quality as these are the only complete 1600s ones I have.

 

[Ahab8]

Bill you are such a show off lol. That is a jaw dropping collection. You do realize I have zero spectacle buckles. Only 3 17th century maybe. Not sure I've ever seen a spectacle from Maine. Could that ha e been a regional thing? Like you and all your silver coins....and me and all my ugly copper coins

 

[joeyfresh]

Bill, I've seen you dig other 17th varieties that aren't in that display. For example, the one I texted you yesterday is 17th century according to the CJ's Buckles reference page and I know you've dug plenty of them. Also, another one that comes to mind is the buckle with the initials on the chape. That one is late 17th century.

 

[joeyfresh]

Bill you are such a show off lol. That is a jaw dropping collection. You do realize I have zero spectacle buckles. Only 3 17th century maybe. Not sure I've ever seen a spectacle from Maine. Could that ha e been a regional thing? Like you and all your silver coins....and me and all my ugly copper coins

Abe, there have been spectacle buckles dug in the northeast but the most I've seen were dug in Virginia and Maryland. All the more reason we need a database similar to the U.K. one. Work on that please...chop chop

 

[Ahab8]

Bill, I've seen you dig other 17th varieties that aren't in that display. For example, the one I texted you yesterday is 17th century according to the CJ's Buckles reference page and I know you've dug plenty of them. Also, another one that comes to mind is the buckle with the initials on the chaps. That one is late 17th century.

So there's more? Least surprising thing I'll hear today. Cmon Bill let's see the other 400

 

[Bill D. (VA)]

So there's more? Least surprising thing I'll hear today. Cmon Bill let's see the other 400

That's all I could fit into the case man .... .

 

[Donnie B from VA]

That is an awesome display. My oldest buckle is iron.